Chapter 42 Summary

Back at the Tranquility Inn, Johnny thinks it will take four or five months to repair the facility and that they will miss a season for guests, allowing time to erase the rumors and speculation regarding the strange events that occurred there. "Judge" Prefontaigne has a free extended stay for all the things he did for David and Marie and their family.

Panov has survived, and he and Alex discuss the end of Medusa, which will be absorbed by the economies of the various countries where it had operated. They remark on the "coincidence of evil" (Page 650) that led to the discovery of Medusa in the wake of their chasing Carlos the Jackal. Krupkin has disappeared and is assumed dead since the KGB came looking for him. Buckingham Pritchard and his "esteemed uncle" are back in the good graces of John St. Jacques...